Health Workforce Research

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"For Nurses By Nurses" - Nurse Endorsed Strategies to Address Nurse Retention

This webinar will address the growing challenge of nurse retention in healthcare and its impact on care quality, workforce sustainability, and organizational performance. Attendees will explore current trends in nurse turnover, key contributing factors—including burnout, workplace violence, and staffing ratios—and the financial and operational costs of high attrition. The session will highlight evidence-based retention strategies...

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Toward a Better Understanding of Primary Care Physician Career Typologies

The nation faces a persistent shortage and maldistribution of primary care physicians (PCPs). A better understanding of PCP career typologies could help policy makers target interventions toward certain subgroups, rather than using a “one-size fits all” approach to improving PCP supply and distribution across settings and in rural areas. This article discusses findings from a...

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About HWTAC

Established to support the efforts of the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (NCHWA), the Health Workforce Technical Assistance Center (HWTAC) provides technical assistance to states and organizations that engage in health workforce planning. Our strength at HWTAC is our experience and knowledge about health workforce research. We offer a wide array of technical expertise to support health workforce planning at many levels.

HWTAC is based at the Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) at the College of Integrated Health Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York.

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